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Professional

1.              To be responsible for the development, implementation, and delivery of Occupational Therapy, within the context of hand therapy including assessment, treatment planning and implementation of treatment for a patient caseload. This caseload may be a combination of adults or paediatrics. To develop and implement treatment programmes and initiate discharge planning. To be skilled in assessing and interpreting a range of complex factors relating to the patients’ condition, including diagnosis and prognosis.

2.              To communicate hand therapy assessment and treatment plans with patients and carers, dealing sensitively with distressing or emotional circumstances and being realistic about patients’ expectations.

3.              To create an environment that promotes effective communication to patients, carers, and colleagues, being an effective communicator and demonstrating skills in empathy, reassurance, and the ability to motivate others.

4.              To communicate with patient, carer and colleagues and multidisciplinary team members in relation to patient care, participating in decisions made. This will require communicating complex sensitive diagnostic and prognostic information.

5.              To keep up-to-date and accurate clinical records on observations and treatment input to patient caseload within the Codes of Practice and professional guidelines for Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy and, where appropriate, inform others of the patient’s clinical status, aims of treatment and ongoing management plan.

6.                 To be responsible for own learning, knowledge, and skills relevant to hand therapy. To be responsible for initiating access to appropriate training to address these in line with continued professional development (CPD).

7.                 To be responsible for keeping up to date with mandatory training.

8.                 To be aware of the current evidence base relating to professional practice and to interpret and apply this specialist knowledge in work.

9.                 To maintain the highest possible clinical and professional standards and to abide by national guidelines and standards relevant to a clinical caseload within hand therapy

10.              To be aware of changing trends in treatments and the need to keep up to date with clinical developments. To be able to provide the highest standard of specialised care to patients in an effective and efficient way.

11.              To assess, recommend and where appropriate provide a range of equipment and/or aids for the patient’s home and or workplace, to facilitate patients’ rehabilitation and discharge from hand therapy.

12.              To supervise, monitor and ensure that staff are knowledgeable and trained in the effective use of Medical Devices inline with the Medical Devices Policy.

13.              To provide support and supervision to a range of qualified and unqualified occupational therapy and physiotherapy staff, monitor the standard of treatment; give training and instruction as appropriate. To provide staff with clinical support and advice as necessary to enable the development of their skills.

14.              To actively participate in clinical education and in-service training programmes and promote learning by encouraging all staff to attend and participate in in-service training, tutorials, individual training sessions, external courses, and peer review. To evaluate learning competencies as required.

15.              To participate in staff appraisals as an appraisee and as an appraiser. To be responsible for complying with the agreed professional development programme and oversee that of supervisees.

16.              As a supervisor assess and contribute to the performance assessment and appraisal of qualified and non-qualified staff.

17.              To be responsible for teaching and training student Occupational Therapists to Graduate Level and students from other professions on the role of Occupational Therapy, clinical developments and techniques within the defined clinical area of expertise.

18.              To actively participate and take a lead in the clinical audit within hand therapy and to participate in multidisciplinary research programmes as appropriate. To undertake the measurement and evaluation of occupational therapy practice through the use of evidence-based practice projects, audit and outcome measures, within hand therapy and / or the multidisciplinary team.

19.              To be actively involved in the peer support and development groups and occupational therapy specialist sections within hand therapy and other professional development activities, as appropriate.

20.              To maintain good working relationships with the team, patients, carers, and personnel from other agencies.